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Jun 20

Ban on beards at work: a safety issue or ‘penny-pinching stupidity’?

  • Tue 20th Jun 2017
  • AdamBublickiadambublickiinternationalworkplacecom
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Building firm Mears has introduced a ban on staff wearing beards due to, it says, health and safety risks. In a letter to all staff, Mears stated that due to working in a potentially dusty environment, from now on all operatives must come to work clean shaven to be able to wear appropriate dust masks effectively. However, it says, “A ‘goatee’ may be acceptable so long as it does not hinder the correct fitting of said dusk masks.”

Kate Gardner

Fire safety guidance – what you need to know

  • Mon 19th Jun 2017
  • AdamBublickiadambublickiinternationalworkplacecom
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Those of us who work in safety – and particularly in fire safety – have learned to see fire risk on a continuum. There really is only a small degree of difference between a toaster burning out and the kind of catastrophe that brings about scores of deaths, days of national mourning, and fundamental change to how we treat this most ancient, most omnipresent and most duplicitous of hazards.

Kelly Mansfield

Asperger’s Syndrome – making adjustments to recruitment processes

  • Tue 6th Jun 2017
  • AdamBublickiadambublickiinternationalworkplacecom
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A recent case considered by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has highlighted the need for employers to be flexible when it comes to recruitment practice, emphasising that one size should definitely not be made to fit all.